Recent content by Truthy

I'm a semi-regular in a French language meetup. We go to breweries/bars or play pétanque (French bocce) in the park and speak French (obviously). It's fun and the fact that we're speaking a language that's pretty uncommon in the US gives the group a strong sense of community; you feel kinship...

There definitely are. For example, just the other day this guy, who's well-known for his YouTube videos explaining AI papers, made a video about a bot he trained off of [the infamous greentext website] and then he had it posts tens of thousands of times on said website: This generated some...

Here's one that generated hype a few weeks ago: Gato, A Generalist Agent from DeepMind. To me the interesting things about it are: It's one model that can competently perform several hundred different tasks, like playing a handful of Atari games, captioning images, and generating dialogue as...

As far as the drone footage thing goes, they spent a while arguing about it yesterday. What Assistant DA Krauss said about it: * Towards the end of the trial, the unnamed guy whose drone took the video (to fit with the existing cast of anonymous characters--Jump Kick Man and Yellow Pants...

I'm a little unsure what exactly you're referring to. I think there are two ways one might say a deep learning model is not "accessible". (1) The model is a "black box". This is what Samson was describing. It's often said deep learning models are "black boxes" because they take some input, spit...

Watching cargo ships is one of my main hobbies. I have a good view of my city's harbor from my office and I spend a considerable amount of time observing what types of ships and cargo come and go. Similarly, I keep an eye on the harbor's dredging activities and what the city does with dredged...

I read this as well. It's one of the best books I've read recently. Though it focuses on just one battle, it gives a lot of insights into the institutional and military-cultural problems that were endemic to Japan's war effort throughout the Pacific War. It also has some really interesting and...

A video about DALL-E: j4xgkjWlfL4

Right on the heels of me dissing OpenAI the other day, they've released this: DALL·E: Creating Images from Text From some of their examples: Text prompt: an armchair in the shape of an avocado AI-generated image: Text prompt: an illustration of a baby daikon radish in a tutu walking a dog...

Continuing the theme of "really not so bad all things considered": - published a paper - grew a beard - got a new job with much better pay and moved to a new city - started lifting very consistently and gained around 30 lbs/13.6 kg; this is the first time in my life that I haven't been skinny -...

A bit of a soapbox: Despite all the hype GPT-3 and other massive models in that vain have received, they rely way too much on memorizing and regurgitating large swathes of the internet. Plus, training GPT-3 had a price tag of millions and was only viable because Microsoft has been pouring money...

During my walk to work, I see pigeons, seagulls, fish, and often jellyfish.

I think it remains to be seen how valuable GPT-based products and services will be, but it can do a lot even with just the format of "provide input prompt and get output". Chatbots, spambots, writing assistants, question-answering, and unscripted/flexible video game dialog are some things I can...

More GPT-3 news: Unlike GPT-2, OpenAI isn't releasing GPT-3. Rather, they're going to retain it and sell its outputs as a service to users in conjunction with Microsoft. As of a few weeks ago, this is their projected pricing plan for their API: To clarify, a "token" here is referring to a...